Graphics

Has anyone set up a way for a show producer, who is NOT sitting by the XP operator, to see a countdown, in seconds, of animations as show opens played out of XPression Studio?

Any ideas or recommendations would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Anthony

The only way I can think to do this would be to write an API app that read the current frame of an animation that is online in the XPression framebuffer. So this would have to be a standalone app that someone would have to create.

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Youc could create a virtual output, a scene "Coutdown" with one text object, then by scripting ("onrender" of the scenes with your main animation), get the scene "Countdown" on framebuffer linked to your virtual output, and update the text object...

Put this virtual output on your second screen (you need one), which is displayed front of your producer.

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That would work, but an OnRender script that is checking the current frame of an animation is probably going to effect system performance very negatively.

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I'll already do some script in onrender, and I don't see this.

But each time, I added a condition to update only when I need. In this example, I'll add something like

if FieldNumber Mod 25 = 0 then

'Update here the text object

end if

Where 25 is your framerate...

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Cool!
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